By slobizman on

I'm moving to Drupal and starting to lay out the design.

Question: Can I have multiple identities (author names) under one user name? In Wordpress, I had one sign-in and I was about to post under any number of "names". This was useful for my admin account. Can I do this with Drupal? For example, at times I might want to post something as Admin and on other times I might want to post something as myself, as an individual not administrator, not representing the site. I don't like creating two accounts because then I have to sign out and back in to switch.

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cog.rusty commented

As far as I know, no, although there are modules which allow you to have an alternative name you can't select between different displayed names when you post.

You can however use multiple accounts and give one of them "administer nodes" permission. Then you can change a post's author while editing.

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Edited to add: If giving someone the "administer nodes" permission is too much, there is also the Masquerade module (http://drupal.org/project/masquerade) which lets someone switch user accounts on the fly.